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EPSRC - DTA PhD Studentship available on Serious Games for Medical Education
at Sheffield University, Computer Science UK
title: Remote clinical consultations using Superfast Broadband connectivity
Supervisors:
Daniela Romano and Nicolas Martin
http://staffwww.dcs.shef.ac.uk/people/D.Romano/
http://www.shef.ac.uk/dentalschool/staff/profiles/martin.html
Deadline for application 31st March 2011
The award covers UK fees and a stipend at the standard UK research
rate of £13,590.
Eligibility
Applicants should have, or expect to achieve, a minimum of an
upper-second-class Honours degree (2.1 or above) or a Master’s degree
in Computer Science with a specialization in any of the followings: 3D
Graphics, data processing and transmission, data security and
interested in Serious Games and Medical Education.
Summary
A fully funded 3 year EPSRC-DTA PhD studentship is available in the
field of Serious Games for Medical Education. This studentship offers
a valuable opportunity to work within a multidisciplinary team of
scientists, clinicians and educators in the department of Computer
Science, School of Clinical Dentistry and with the industrial partner
Digital Region South Yorkshire (http://www.digitalregion.co.uk/)
providing a dedicated connectivity network.
In medicine and dentistry, thousands of specialist consultations are
provided every day in the NHS for patients referred by their
doctor/dentist; a process that is slow and laborious. The South
Yorkshire region, first in the UK, is currently undergoing the
installation of superfast broadband technology, providing an
opportunity to improve the delivery of specialist clinical
consultations for patients and remote clinical post-graduate
education. This project will assess and resolve the barriers to remote
clinical consultations in dentistry using superfast broadband
connectivity. The project outcomes to lead to the timely treatment of
NHS patients and the improvement in the skills of the general dentist
population.
In particular this research will examine and resolve the challenges of
providing remote clinical consultations in dentistry, developing a
tangible bespoke 3D based solution to be used for the effective
transmission of rich clinical data. A real-life feasibility study
will be conducted using such system to identify the opportunities and
challenges associated with the delivery of remote clinical education
in dentistry using broadband connectivity.
Applications
Applications should be made using the on-line application form
http://www.shef.ac.uk/postgraduate/research/apply and should include
an up-to-date CV with a covering letter. The covering letter must
include a summary as to why you wish to apply for this particular
studentship and how your interests and experience relate to the
project.
Further details of the project can be obtained by contacting
Dr Nicolas Martin [log in to unmask] or
Dr Daniela Romano [log in to unmask] .
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Daniela M. Romano Ph.D. MSc MBCS, MIEEE FRSA
Senior Lecturer, Virtual Reality, Virtual Environment and Serious Games
Kroto Research Institute for Engineering Multidisciplinary Research
Member of the DCS Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality group
2nd Year Tutor, member of TeachCom
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD
The Department of Computer Science
Regent Court, 211 Portobello, Room G10
Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~daniela/
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International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations (IJGCMS)
http://www.igi-global.com/ijgcms
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Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (www.jmui.org), jointly published
by Springer and the OpenInterface Association.
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In-Cognito http://www.in-cognito.net
Journal of Cognitive Science in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese
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